[Leica] daly PAWs 7

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

You're welcome. I should have added, Brad, that I find the camera and
format really intriguing - 

BTW, the thing that particularly gets me about that third shot and the
kid is that looking at the camera looks more than a bit 'off,' perhaps
retarded - which would explain his being on his second adoption. All I
could think of is his seeing that photo when he's an adult....

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brad daly
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:58 PM
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On 22 Feb 2005, at 3:36 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> But - they all could have been shot, and perhaps better, with a 28, 24

> or 21 - they really didn't need the Xpan, which in this case leaves 
> what amounts to too much dead space.

i kept thinking "28, 28, 28" the whole time i was shooting these.  it 
would have worked a lot better to get in the people and their signs, 
since people holding signs are generally vertically oriented.

FWIW, i have a few more up on the fuji rangefinder website:

http://tinyurl.com/655ns

i'm like using the Xpan because movies are one of the first things that 
got me interested in photography.  i'm interested in *having* to 
compose in a wide rectangle, even when regular 2:3 format would be 
easier.  obviously, it doesn't always work.

> BTW - I have to say that the third one, which I really like, really 
> enrages me - but it's the mother who gets me teed off, not you. :-)

yeah, i felt much the same way.  i'm not opposed to seeing kids "used" 
for propoganda per se, but i do think using kids at an anti-abortion 
rally is over the line.  there was a lot of imagery--mutilated fetuses, 
etc--that could really be psychologically damaging to a lot of kids.  i 
don't think it would bother me, though, to see kids holding signs at a 
democratic or republican rally.

thanks for the comments.

--brad

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brad daly       
brad@bradbrad.com
http://www.bradbrad.com

What Would Bill Hicks Say?

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
        --Richard Avedon

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